Irving Lerner

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Irving Lerner (7 March 1909, New York City - 25 December 1976, Los Angeles) Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department. He then made films for the Rockefeller Foundation and other academic institutions, later becoming a film editor and second-unit director involved with the emerging American documentary movement of the late '30s. Lerner produced two documentaries for the Office of War Information during WW II and after the war became the head of New York University's Educational Film Institute. In 1948, Lerner and Joseph Strick shared directorial chores on a short documentary, Muscle Beach. Lerner then turned to low-budget, quickly filmed features. When not hastily making his own thrillers, Lerner worked as a technical advisor, a second-unit director, a co-editor and an editor. Lerner was cinematographer, director, or assistant director on documentary films such as One Third of a Nation (1939), Valley Town (1940), The Land (1942) directed by Robert Flaherty, and Suicide Attack (1950). Le…

Directed

1. Murder by Contract (1958) — Director
2. City of Fear (1959) — Director
3. A Town Called Bastard (1971) — Director
4. Ben Casey (1961) — Director
5. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) — Director
6. Swedes in America (1943) — Director
7. Edge of Fury (1958) — Director
8. Cry of Battle (1963) — Director
9. Studs Lonigan (1960) — Director
10. The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (1943) — Director
11. A Place to Live (1941) — Director
12. Muscle Beach (1948) — Director
13. Target: The Corruptors! (1961) — Director
14. Mr. Novak (1963) — Director
15. To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947) — Director
16. China Strikes Back (1937) — Director
17. Man Crazy (1953) — Director
18. Suicide Attack (1951) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Pie in the Sky (1935)
2. B. Must Die (1975) — Store's Owner (uncredited)